I like traveling the most

On the second day of the world's No. 1 Martial Arts Tournament, the arena was still bustling with people. There were even more people today than yesterday. After all, more than 700 people were eliminated yesterday.

When the time came to 10 o'clock in the morning.

"Hehehe————"

Sato Kazuma walked into the venue quickly, holding the microphone and loudly asked the audience around him: "Welcome to the arena, today is the second day of the martial arts tournament. Do you miss me or do you prefer the next duel? Come and cheer loudly, let me hear your voices."

After saying that, he put his hands on his ears to pretend to listen, and the audience in the audience also gave him face and shouted loudly.

"Kazuma! Kazuma! Kazuma!" xN

"Great, this cheer is really great, I'm so high!"

Sato Kazuma had a wild smile on his face, and just as he was enjoying the cheers of the crowd with great pride, some people couldn't stand it and shouted:

"Enough, Kazuma! Hurry up and start!"

"That's right, don't waste time!"

"Hurry up and start!"

Mixed with a little sporadic spitting, this scum who enjoyed the cheers spit, but still tried his best to do his job.

"Everyone wait a moment! I know you are in a hurry, but don't be in a hurry! Please let me read the sponsor's GG words as usual! What, no one came to me for sponsorship, what's going on? Then there is no way, we have to skip the GG stage and enter the next stage!"

Sato Kazuma's humorous and interesting opening remarks made the scene boil.

"Since it's a formal competition, we have to hold it in a formal way. Otherwise, what's the difference from a street fight? What, a formal duel is just because there are judges? It doesn't matter, we are well prepared! First, let's get to know our judges! Please look here!"

He waved his right hand to the side. There was a long table covered with a red tablecloth at the edge of the arena, and three people were sitting there in a serious manner.

"I didn't expect that Miss Aqua, who co-hosted with me yesterday, would become today's judge! So, Aqua, do you have anything to say?"

"Please join the Axis Church. The Axis Church is fraternal. As long as it's not with liches, any XP can be understood, so--"

"Okay, thank you for your speech!"

"Wait a minute, Kazuma! I haven't finished yet!"

"Let go, idiot! Don't grab my microphone!"

The two people's jokes and playfulness made the atmosphere very lively.

Sato Kazuma held down the crazy idiot goddess, and finally grabbed the microphone back and came to the next judge.

"Oh my! I didn't expect it to be Mr. Diabel, the president of our Holy Dragon Union! Come, please say hello to everyone!"

This minor character who should have died on the first floor and served as a warning to everyone survived by chance because of the intervention of Xiaolin and others, and established the Holy Dragon Union Guild to join the strategy group, becoming a large guild second only to the Akusis Church and the Blood Alliance Knights.

"Hello everyone, I am Diabel."

Diabel smiled, and warm cheers rang out around him. His handsome face made him popular with many girls.

Sato Kazuma complained in a low voice.

"Tsk, damn handsome guy."

"I always feel like you are scolding me"

"How is it possible."

Faced with Diabel's questioning, he of course shook his head to deny it, and at the same time, he grinned and asked him a little sinisterly.

"President Diabel, can you tell me why you didn't make it to the finals? We're both members of the Clearing Team."

"Hahaha, there's nothing I can do. I'm not good at fighting, so I can only be a tank in the Clearing Team. It just means I'm not strong enough, that's all."

The frank and generous answer was decent.

Diabel was loved by its guild members for this reason, and it became a well-known guild in Aincrad.

"I heard you lost in the fourth round?"

"That's right."

"Then President Diabel, can you tell me who you lost to in the end?"

"I lost to President Alice."

Diabel admitted it openly.

Sato Kazuma grinned insidiously. He seemed to have known the answer long ago, and just deliberately designed to trick Diabel into saying it. However, his purpose was not to embarrass Diabel, but he had other intentions.

Turning his head, his insidious expression instantly turned into eagerness.

"It turns out to be our Princess Alice! She is so strong! By the way, the odds of betting on Alice to win the championship are now 1.5! Everyone, what are you waiting for, take action now!"

The tempting words constantly aroused the hearts of the audience.

"Sure enough, Princess Alice is very strong!"

"I want to bet on Princess Alice!"

"Me too!"

These people left the venue with full confidence, with a kind of Edward who went bankrupt.

Seeing that his goal was achieved, Sato Kazuma immediately grinned and switched to a scumbag smile.

"Okay, let's not waste any more time, let's start right away---"

"Wait a minute! Mr. Kazuma, you forgot me!"

"Ah, Youyou."

Looking at Youyou with tears in the corners of his eyes, Sato Kazuma felt a little embarrassed. Maybe because he was too excited, he actually forgot about Youyou.

"So Youyou, do you have anything to say?"

"Well, well...cheers to all the contestants!"

After hesitating for a long time, he could only say this.

Sato Kazuma was speechless, but it was better than the stupid goddess who wanted to occupy the microphone to spread shoe glue.

"Okay! Thank you for the blessing of judge Youyou!"

Sato Kazuma returned to the center of the arena, raised the microphone and said loudly: "Dear audience, our game today is about to begin!... Although you may have read the rules of today before the game, in order to do your job, I still have to repeat it again! Please listen patiently!"

The main competition is the same as the preliminaries. Players are randomly arranged to fight, and the winner will enter the next round. This mode will continue for three rounds, and players who win all three games will advance to the quarterfinals.

But there are only six people.

The remaining two places will be selected from the players who lost in the second round. In other words, you have to enter the second round anyway, otherwise there will be no resurrection match.

"Then next————"

Sato Kazuma deliberately stretched out the tone and shouted like he was breathing heavily: "——Please invite the two contestants, Root and Andy, to the stage!"

There is an exit on the left and right sides of the arena. Root and Andy walked out of the two exits respectively, raised their hands and greeted the people around them amid the cheers of the audience. It seems that they also enjoy being sought after.

During this period, Sato Kazuma introduced the audience.

"Dear audience, Root and Andy are both members of the strategy team. Their strength is beyond doubt. I believe they will present us with a wonderful contest!"

Generally speaking, the host has to introduce the advantages and fighting methods of the contestants, as well as their past records, to the audience.

However, this is a death game. Many people don't even show the window to others, let alone their advantages and abilities. In addition, this is the first time that the world's number one martial arts competition is held, and there is no excellent record in the past.

But as a famous commentator once said:

The audience knows nothing about the game.

Besides, the duel is about who is more powerful and whose moves are more gorgeous. There is no need to say more about such things that are obvious at a glance.

In fact, their professions can be seen from their appearance alone. For example, Root is wearing a relatively light half-body armor and holding a blood-red cross spear in his hand. At first glance, he is a spearman with medium and long-range attack distance. Andy is a knight with a one-handed sword and a shield - this is what Diabel calls himself and is widely circulated.

By the way, one-handed sword players can equip light shields. Players like Kirito who do not rely on shields and only use one-handed swords are very rare.

"Then player Root, please send a half-damage duel invitation to player Andy."

Root did not speak, and his fingers quickly slid to invite Andy to a duel. Then a large blue virtual light screen appeared above the heads of the two people, and the number ten was displayed on the light screen, and then every second counted down.

Seeing this, Sato Kazuma left the scene quickly.

At this time, Rut took out the spear from his back and said to his friend in front of him: "I didn't expect you to make it to the finals. What an unexpected luck."

"Haven't you heard that luck is part of strength?" Andy took a stance and waited for the battle.

"It's a pity that your luck ends here. Even if we are friends, I will not show mercy."

"I couldn't ask for more. But don't forget that I am the one who knows you best. Be careful and lose Jingzhou."

Andy, like most Japanese people, likes the Three Kingdoms very much, so he understands the meaning of some famous sayings.

Rut licked his lips and didn't answer.

"3, 2, 1! Start!"

When the countdown ended, the two disappeared instantly, and the next second the spear and the one-handed sword collided with each other.

"So fast!"

"How much distance did the two just cross!"

"Five meters! A full five meters!"

"It's a lie..."

Many players couldn't help but mutter to themselves when they saw this scene. Most of them are low-level players and casual players. Even if they heard that the members of the strategy team are very strong, they have never seen them and don’t know how strong they are. With this opportunity, they seem to be lucky enough to witness the battle between top players.

This is a high-quality duel!

It seems too much of a fuss to be speechless just because of a collision.

After a simple collision, Rutt and Andy kept waving their weapons, raising dust in the arena. At first, the two may have had the idea of ​​showing off, but as the battle became more intense, they also entered the state, and the long spear with a light blue light kept colliding with the one-handed sword covered by red light.

"So, so strong!"

"They don't give in to each other!"

"I thought the people in the strategy group were only strong in level and attributes, but I didn't expect their skills to be so strong!"

"Oh, that's natural. Only with skills can you get more powerful equipment, isn't that natural?"

Just like in many highlights, there will always be people who say that it's just equipment crushing, but they don't know that these equipment are all advantages accumulated by players relying on superb skills, and the moment they get powerful equipment, they turn the advantages into winning advantages.

And during their battle, Sato Kazuma came to the judges' seat.

"Three judges, do you have any comments on the two top players in the duel?"

"That one... is still too weak after all."

Aqua crossed her arms and looked unfathomable.

Sato Kazuma blinked.

"Who are you talking about?"

"The one-handed sword player."

"Hmm, as expected of Ms. Aqua. She obviously doesn't even dare to participate in the BOSS strategy battle, yet she shamelessly comments on the members of the strategy team. Okay, let's hear what you have to say!"

"Look. The one-handed sword player was beaten and retreated, and he was almost pushed to the edge of the arena. It was obvious that he could not avoid it, and he looked like he was going to lose."

"No, I don't think so."

It was Diabel who contradicted her.

Compared with the idiot goddess who talks nonsense, Diabell, a player with considerable strength, is obviously more convincing.

"President Diabel?"

"I think the one-handed sword player... No, Andy will win."

"Oh ho~ Here comes a different view!"

"There are only two opinions now, and it's a duel between two people."

Diabel complained.

"That's not important! So, President Diabell, who did not enter the main competition, why do you think Player Andy will win?"

"Hey, did you mention that I didn't make it to the main competition on purpose?"

Sato Kazuma waved his hand noncommittally.

Diabell was very depressed but helpless. After sorting out his emotions, he explained:

"Please watch carefully. Although player Andy is defeated by Root on the surface, this is not the case. Player Root is now brought into Andy's rhythm. The evidence is that Andy is now He is not defeated yet, he is deliberately leading Lute to the edge of the arena.”

"Hey, do you want to consume Lute's physical strength and magic power? But as we all know, SAO has no physical strength bar and magic power bar. You can still use skills even if you are brought to the edge of the arena. So why do you do this?"

"wrong."

Diabell shook his head, his eyes became sharp, as if he had seen through everything.

"If they are all using one-handed swords, then Andy's approach is undoubtedly a waste of energy and self-defense, but Root is a long-range spearman who can attack at medium and long distances."

"I see, that's it! Because there will be a long stalemate after player Root releases his skills. Player Andy has noticed this, right?!"

Sato Kazuma suddenly realized.

In SAO, there are no long-distance attack methods such as archers and magicians, so the task of interrupting the BOSS's skills and making them freeze falls on those with mid-range attacks such as spearmen and axemen.

And players who use these weapons have one thing in common. That is, after using a powerful skill, you will fall into a super long state of freeze for two or three seconds.

It is precisely because of this that players will spontaneously switch to offset this stiffness.

"And it's also very difficult for the spear user to use skills after being led into a corner. The only skill that can be used in that situation is, I remember, called——"

"Flowing thrust!"

In the field, Lute, who was brought to the edge of the arena, shouted, swinging the spear with both hands and trying to use this skill to push Andy off the arena, but Andy's eyes shone brightly.

That's it now!

Horizontal square cross cut!

This is the one-handed sword skill that Kirito used when he killed the Kobold BOSS on the first floor. Its skill effect is to rotate himself forward and have a powerful attack effect.

Andy stepped on the ground, turned around and came behind Root. His attack speed was slightly inferior to that of the rapier, but far exceeded the attack power of the rapier. It turned into a powerful sword skill and fell on Root who was in a stiff state. , reducing Root's health to less than half in the blink of an eye!

Toot toot————

The blue light curtain of the duel lights up.

Winner, Andy!

He used his intelligence to make Root fall into his carefully laid trap, and then fought back at the moment when the opponent mistakenly thought he would win, and finally won his own victory!

"I said before, don't be careless and lose Jingzhou."

"Tsk."

Root sighed unwillingly.